Man found alive in Amazon three days after crash

A Bolivian salesman was found alive in the Amazon jungle on Friday nearly three days after a small plane crashed, killing everyone else on board.

Nine people were travelling on the Fairchild Aerospace Metro when it went missing near the city of Trinidad on Tuesday, but when rescuers only found eight bodies in the wreckage they kept searching deeper into the forest.

"From several kilometres away, we saw a man on the river bank signalling to us. When we got closer, he knelt down and thanked God," said naval captain David Bustos, who led the rescue operation.

"He said he'd been trapped in the plane for more than 15 hours and that when he finally escaped he began to walk and survived by drinking his own urine and water from a lagoon," Mr Bustos added.

The man, named as Minor Vidal, a 35-year-old cosmetics salesman, had head and rib injuries but was otherwise fine, according to Mr Bustos.